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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1801 The House of Representatives breaks an electoral college tie and chooses Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr
1817 Baltimore became the first US city lit by gas
1865 Columbia South Carolina is destroyed by fire as Major General William Tecumseh Sherman marches through
1870 Mississippi became the 9th state readmitted to the US after the Civil War
1925 The first issue of Harold Ross’ magazine, The New Yorker, hits the stands, selling for 15 cents a copy
1933 The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States. The 21st Amendment reverses the 18th.
1945 US Navy "frogmen" clearing beaches at Iwo Jima take heavy losses
1947 With the words, “Hello! This is New York calling,” the US Voice of America (VOA) begins its first radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union
1959 The United States launches its first weather station in space, Vanguard II
1975 Art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gogh, valued at $5 million, is stolen from the Municipal Museum in Milan
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